ANGST Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

angst

noun

Definition of angst

as in fear

a strong feeling of being worried or nervous a film about teenage angst

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Recent Examples of angst Still, the angst around CoreWeave has made things shaky for other companies that have taken out significant debt in the AI buildout — Oracle’s shares, for instance, which have fallen almost 10 percent in the same timeframe. — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2026 That angst came to a head Tuesday when about a dozen runners from the Camas High School girls cross country team walked off the starting line when the gun went off in their race against Battle Ground, a fellow Washington state school. — Matt Calkins Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 The real trouble, and the reason for investor angst, lies below the surface of the XBI’s performance. — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 15 Oct. 2026 The contest is playing out in a turbulent political year in which voter angst over the Iran war, soaring gas and diesel prices and a rising cost of living have put the House and Senate up for grabs. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for angst

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Noun

Fortune recently reported on wealthy parents’ growing fear that their fortunes will sap their children’s drive.

— Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Coupled with job-displacement fears from AI, opponents now point to the facilities as a physical symbol of who benefits from the boom and who gets stuck with the bill.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of fear

Noun

Research has also found that across generational groups, greater user tendency to engage in social comparison, together with greater maladaptive ways of coping with emotions, is associated with more symptoms of anger, anxiety, and depression.

— Ashwini Nadkarni, Time, 24 Oct. 2026
The market for profiting off male body anxiety is nothing new.

— Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of anxiety

Noun

There are so many organizations working to protect the voting process -- including many that cannot legally coordinate with each other -- that some officials involved worry about unintentionally creating chaos outside polling locations.

— STEVE PEOPLES, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
Those talks collapsed over price and worries about antitrust pushback, neither of which hold true today.

— Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of worry

Noun

Also hanging over the election were lingering tensions with Iran.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
This tension has given rise to a subgenre of Hong Kong horror films in which high-density housing is a spooky backdrop for exploring superstition and socioeconomic anxieties.

— Hari Raj, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of tension

Noun

The excellent Benton plays Paulina — the Regina George-esque queen bee at a girls’ high school in 1986 Ghana — with snide stares, biting put-downs and internalized torment.

— Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
Garland wasted no time giving Clippers fans something to smile about after an offseason of torment and transformation.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of torment

Noun

Smiling can affect one's level of cortisol, a hormone the body releases partly to help regulate stress and mood, according to Ho.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Human rights groups have long warned of the undue stress suspects in Japan are subject to during detention, ranging from aggressive questioning tactics to the lack of access to lawyers.

— Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of stress

Noun

In a masterful unbroken shot, Klaus is on the phone from France with his sister, expressing his bottomless anguish.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Polly, by contrast, reads the manuscript and is immediately filled with anguish and all-consuming fury.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026

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